On the 8th, the State Council New Office held a press conference on the white paper "China's Biodiversity Conservation", at which Li Chunliang, deputy director of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, said that the continuous decline of a variety of endangered wild animals such as giant pandas, crested ibises, Asian elephants, and Tibetan antelopes has basically reversed and recovered. Among them, the number of giant pandas in the wild has increased from 1114 to 1864 in the past 40 years, the number of crested ibises has grown from 7 at the beginning of its discovery to the current total number of wild populations and artificially bred populations of more than 5000, the number of Wild Asian Elephants has increased from 180 in the 1980s to about 300 at present, and the number of Wild populations of Hainan gibbons has increased from less than 10 in two groups 40 years ago to 35 in five groups. The Wild Population of Przewalski's Wild Horses and Elk, which have become extinct in the wild, has been re-established in the wild, and a large number of wild animals such as giant pandas, crested ibises, Yangtze crocodiles, forest muskets, white-necked long-tailed pheasants, and black langur monkeys have been released into nature. (Reporter Gao Jing)
Source: Xinhua News Agency Weibo